Tuesday, September 29, 2015

With Cityfolk rolling into town in mid-September, there was also a bunch of music going on under the Marvest banner in venues around town. I hunkered down at the House of Targ for a couple of nights of Skreedlemania. Jeff from Neck curated the shows, which featured a bunch of Ottawa bands. Up first on Sept. 18 were Uvula. The trio features Pat and Jamie from The Flaps and soundman about town and Rhume bassist Jarrett Bartlett. Here's Pat!

Last time I saw Slim and Popular, they were unceremoniously shut down one song into their set (the Daily Grind's neighbours appear to be much more particular about high volume than they once were). No worries about sound levels at Targ; they really blasted it out this time around.

Lars handles the low end.

Dave hits!

Brendan sings!

Extra Larry!

Singalong action!

Extra Dave!

Dual vocal action!

The whole lot!

And now for something actually folky: Tara Holloway.

Raspy-vocied action!

And so on!

Gesticulating action!

Then there was some more punky action from Audio Visceral, who hale from Vankleek Hill and who were touring with DOA around this gig. Here's guitarist Steve Beauchesne.

Steve sings!

Bass action with Kevin James!

Gary Doherty hits!

More Steve and Kevin!

More running about!

Kevin sings a bit!

The mighty Monobrow finished the night off. They recently released a two-song EP, A Handwritten Letter From The Moon. Here's Paul!

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Another batch of Wings of Metal travellers rolled into Ottawa a week ago - and it was one of the bands high on the "I'll never see them live" list: Vulcain. I didn't even realize they were still a going concern; the band often touted as France's answer to Motorhead called it quits back in 1998, but apparently the call of metal was too much to resist for brothers Vincent and Daniel Puzo and drummer Marc Varez, since they got the band back together in 2009. Things started off with a little Slumlord - here's bassist Severine.

T.J. sings!

Trasha hits!

Telecaster action!

Sev sings!

More Trasha!

Extra Sev!

On to Vulcain, who held on to the middle slot despite being the headliners. I kind of like the idea of putting the main band on in the middle, though it did mean a bunch of folk split on Chloroform. Here's axeman and singer Daniel.

Marc hits!

A took a bunch of photos while they lights were down low - fortunately they turned things up a bit which allowed for a better series of shots.

Daniel frets!

Marc shouts!

And so on!

Vincent works the Ric.

Marc hams it up!

The crowd was mighty enthusiastic!

Rick, Scott and Brendan had a hard act to follow, and ripped through their set with abandon.

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I'm an inveterate show-goer and photographer from Ottawa, Canada, and take copious pictures of live shows, most of which can be seen here on my blog or on Flickr. You can also follow me on Twitter, or on Tumblr. Past show and music reviews can also be found at Penny Black Music.

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